Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

Otavio Salvador a écrit : Hello, On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:01 AM, M.-A. DARCHE ma.dar...@cynode.org wrote: parted mklabel your usbstick msdos $ LC_ALL=C sudo parted mklabel /dev/sdb msdos Error: Could not stat device mklabel - No such file or directory. Retry/Cancel? Sorry, my fault.

Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

Hello, On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:01 AM, M.-A. DARCHE ma.dar...@cynode.org wrote: parted mklabel your usbstick msdos $ LC_ALL=C sudo parted mklabel /dev/sdb msdos Error: Could not stat device mklabel - No such file or directory. Retry/Cancel? Sorry, my fault. parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos

Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

Otavio Salvador a écrit : On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:29 PM, M.-A. DARCHE ma.dar...@cynode.org wrote: parted behaves very strangely on my Debian Lenny stable. It accepts only to work on mounted partitions. Is that how it should be? No, it should work on devices as well. That seems logical

Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

Otavio Salvador a écrit : Hello, Hello Debian :-) It took me some time to answer because I wanted to do some more tests prior to answering. On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Did you ever find a procedure that restored the stick to its full capacity? No

Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

Hello, On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:29 PM, M.-A. DARCHE ma.dar...@cynode.org wrote: parted behaves very strangely on my Debian Lenny stable. It accepts only to work on mounted partitions. Is that how it should be? No, it should work on devices as well. What worries me is that you had pasted dd

Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

Hello, On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Did you ever find a procedure that restored the stick to its full capacity? parted mklabel msdos ought to clear it up (and you'll lose your data) but after creating new partition it ought to continue to work. Does it

Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

First of all, sorry for the late reply. On Tuesday 13 January 2009, M.-A. DARCHE wrote: The problem now is that I cannot recover/restore my USB stick to its previous state. Before me installing the Debian installer on it, the USB capacity (size) was 2Gb and now when I open the USB device with

Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

Package: installation-guide-i386 Version: Current version http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html Severity: wishlist Hello I have installed Lenny Testing through a USB stick as described in http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html It boots OK as it should etc.